There have been significant changes in the financing of early-stage innovative companies since the beginning of this … decade. The importance of institutional venture capital funds' investments declined in financing startups and early …-stage ventures. At the same time, alternative sources of financing early-stage companies increased. Alternative sources of funding …

We show that the rise of crowdfunding over the past decade fostered entrepreneurship and output growth in the United …. Moreover, we uncover that crowdfunding boosts entrepreneurship by reducing geographic and demographic frictions in offline … present early evidence that this crowdfunding-entrepreneurship nexus matters significantly for growth …

Financing entrepreneurship spurs innovation and economic growth. Digital financial platforms that crowdfund equity for … entrepreneurs have emerged globally, yet they remain poorly understood. We model equity crowdfunding in terms of the relationship …

Financing entrepreneurship spurs innovation and economic growth. Digital financial platforms that crowdfund equity for … entrepreneurs have emerged globally, yet they remain poorly understood. We model equity crowdfunding in terms of the relationship …

-based hometown investment trust (HIT) fund address this issue and offer a way of financing for those projects. Technical developments … a concrete application of DLTs in the field of green financing, which offers the potential to increase social welfare …

activity on the success of crowdfunding campaigns. It is found that more stringent platform disclosure requirements and risk … warnings are not associated with success of crowdfunding campaigns. However, owner experience and firm-specific financial … statement information are correlated with crowdfunding success. Moreover, social networking, at least as measured by the …

In this chapter, we present tokenization of equity crowdfunding on a Blockchain as a possible approach to ease access …-functioning secondary market. Tokenization allows to decouple the ledger of assets from the crowdfunding platform, thus lowering the cost of …

Crowdfunding has recently gained ground as an alternative financing means, particularly for start-ups and risky … both for educators designing higher education programmes in the field of entrepreneurship, as well as for crowdfunding … enterprises. We hereby analyse Romanian and South Korean students' intentions to use crowdfunding in their future ventures. Using …

financing instruments, and third testing of governance by individually agreed upon, and contractually binding, objectives. In …

cultural and creative industries or academic entrepreneurship. Ultimately, a potpourri of manifold spatial metaphors connected …